Plant-necrotroph co-transcriptome networks illuminate a metabolic battlefield.

A central goal of studying host-pathogen interaction is to understand how host and pathogen manipulate each other to promote their own fitness in a pathosystem. Co-transcriptomic approaches can simultaneously analyze dual transcriptomes during infection and provide a systematic map of the cross-kingdom communication between two species. Here we used the Arabidopsis- pathosystem to test how plant host and fungal pathogen interact at the transcriptomic level.